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Not necessarily a very strong premiere. The mood was uh, unexpected...? The fact that the four of them weren't happily experiencing slife of life together for one, and then the fantastic elements that we did sort of see coming, but which still seemed awkwardly handled. Didn't they mention that Rin's mother was the one who let them on the wishing deal? Maybe we'll get flashbacks of the four girl's mothers making their own wishes or something w

The show was very colorful and decently animated, though. Besides, I am curious to see where this sort of story can get us... hopefully it'll get more fun once we get over the "Saki's transfering!" plot. At least Yuka's already shown she'll be a riot, as expected of Tomacchan!

Just watched the first episode, but it's good to see a the slice-of-life going on a unexpected way.
However, I thought Saki would play the big sister role of the four, but it seems she turns someone else : she's another generic blonde bitch born from a rich family and has selfish personality and despite being already at the school with her three friends, I feel like she's transferred to the same school for the second time. However, the four girls are also finally reaching the unexpected wish they dream of since the childhood. But even after the wish scene in the shrine at the end, Saki goes back to selfish bitch mode. The only good things of this episode is, besides everything but Saki's personality, the theme songs, childhood moments and the Four Seasons's sequences were pretty good. But I'm very dissapointed of the episode 1 impression because of Saki's personality.

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There's now a clip from Sphere's own PV of the OP on the Planet Sphere site. Scroll down.

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Walking into this show, I wasn't sure what to expect, other than this was going to be unusual in someway

Spoiler for Impressions based on RAW:

Watching the RAW, that expectation was meet. In fact, this show so far had proven to be worth sticking around to the end.

I can't post about specifics yet, but going by what I understood, this show could prove to be an interesting take on Sol shows, going by how it seems like there is going to be much more work towards the more friendly resolution that is normally found in these sort of shows.

The first thing that caught my attention when I first looked at this show was that it was an idol-type show, or more accurately, a show based on a group of singers/idol, which to me struck me as being unusual enough to give it a shot, since after my last dance with the idolm@ster last year proved to be so enjoyable, I decided to give the anime-idol shows another try to see if I might find something in there for me. The realization that Mizushima Seiji was the man at the helm of the project made me filled with utter surprise at first, only for that initial surprise to be replaced with the determination to watch this show to the very end. I had watched all of Mizushima-san's work, from start to finish, and he had worked on a number of shows I place at least among my favorites, and he is one of the few directors who I can say owns a unique directorial touch to his shows that I consider good, so I had to watch this anime. The news about Hidari being in charge of the concept character designs, and Sunrise in charge of the animation was only the cherry on top.

After finishing the first episode, I can say that this show ended up being as I had expected it: there is far more than meets the eye. Aside from the feeling of a different atmosphere (heh, sphere), the addition of a magical element gives me hope to see some action in the show, which I had felt that was Mizushima-san's strong point (his best shows were usually the more action based ones IMO) and the idea that this might be a different take on not only the idol0type shows, but also the SoL genre, I have to say I didn't make a mistake to commit to this show.

Rather boring first episode. It immediately starts off with a fight and the entire episode has the two girls shouting at each other.
It's only the first episode and it's not like I care about the girls yet, so can't really say I can feel for the girls. So it was just... watching two girls shout at each other.
Not interesting.

And then, the last part...
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They flew...
And the reactions of the girls are so unbelievable. Umm, a little more panic here?
And that blond girl just leaving without budging at all from that rather fearsome supernatural event...

I guess one interesting thing about the episode is Saten-san's invasion.
When I saw a screenshot, I did agree that it looked like Saten-san, but I thought that if I saw her moving, she wouldn't be so similar...
which turned out to be false, and besides her hair color (some strange green-black), she was completely Saten-san.
On top of that, there is another anime this season that seems to have Saten-san too...
Eh? I wrote more about Saten-san than the episode? Well, of course, because the episode wasn't worth much to write about!

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What I liked about the premise is how it plays with the transfer student trope.
Normaly a show starts with a chracter transfering into the school from tokyo,not transfering away from the school to tokyo.
There was angst but not too much of it,including a very limited amount of tears (Okada I hope you're watching)
I really like all sphere girls but Hakura Tomatsu really stole the show for me,and I'm usually not into the genki girl stereotype.

Saki was a total mood killer at the end though

*just after lending after having miraculously flown in the sky*
Saki: I'm going home

Decent first episode with some magic/supernatural stuff going on. Two girls (Saki & Natsumi) have some argument due to Saki transferring to another school, four girls have promised to become idol when they were little & wish that be granted depending on the feelings of each main characters.
I have to say Tomatsu character(Yuka) is so energetic

With the voice cast involved, definitely watching thus plus can hear more of sphere songs on course of the series.

Somehow I knew Sunrise wasn't going to follow convention on this one. The idea that the quintessential gang of four would in fact not immediately be friends and there's some sort of mystical element at play instead of just the four paling around all the time almost feels downright revolutionary by slice of life standards.

Goodness it almost sounds like they may have actually prepared the characters for room to grow and they might actually have to struggle or something.

Just watched the pre-air version. I must say this show got such "Asatte no Houkou" vibe to it when I watch this, even when the plot/story of the two are different. Anyway, the first episode looks pretty good, I guess I will put this in my watch-list.

Love at first sight. Seriously, I thought 'Man, I love this show' about 40 seconds into the episode. Great opening and ending themes (This is probably one of the rare instances where I like the ending better), and the artwork is very warm and puts me in a good mood. This one's a keeper.